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Common Seal, Glengarriff, West Cork

A seal with a glint in her eye. A selkie, perhaps?
Common seal, Phoca vitulina, near Garinish Island, Glengarrif, Co. Cork, Ireland. There’s about 30,000 common seals in Irish waters, and these examples were pretty relaxed with the regular visits of the Garinish “Blue Pool Ferry”. Copyright 2011 Dave Walsh All rights reserved – please contact about usage possibilities.Get high resolution common seal image

Writer, photographer, environmental campaigner and "known troublemaker" Dave Walsh is the founder of Blather.net, described both as "possibly the most arrogant and depraved website to be found either side of the majestic Shannon River", and "the nicest website circulating in Ireland". Half Irishman, half-bicycle. He lives in southern Irish city of Barcelona.